Rayner Donovan Statham was born in Winchester, Virginia on December 26, 1968. Rayner is the son of Rowan and Alexus Statham. Rayner lived most of his life in Moorefield, West Virginia.

As Rayner grew older, he enjoyed watching televised wrestling events. After going to a wrestling show in a nearby town, Keyser, West Virginia... Rayner's mind had been made up. He wanted to become a professional wrestler.

At age 19, Rayner left home, in search of his new life as a professional wrestler. Rayner received the horrific news of his parents' death just two days after arriving in Los Angeles, California on a business meeting with an upstart federation.

Coping with the loss of his parents, Rayner realized it would make his parents proud to see him make it to the big time. Two months later, around March of 1997, Rayner was accepted into Thunder Championship Wrestling at the age of 26. Rayner's debut match pitted him against TCW's Doc Steele and Mr. Big Stuff. Rayner went on to win the 2 on 1 match. This win captured the eye of alot of wrestling fans. Before he knew it, Rayner had become the man that the majority of the fans would place their bets on to win. In only Brad's second match with the TCW, he captured his first piece of gold, as he defeated then TCW Hard-Core Champion, MORTICULAR via the TRUCK BOMB (a devastating powerbomb from a pickup bed to hard pavement). Rayner coined himself "The God Of Hard-Core" for the remainder of his career in the TCW, as he went on to capture 5 more Hard-Core Championships in almost 1 full calendar year.

Around the middle of 1998, the TCW would suffer from bankruptcy and would close it's doors. Dan Jackson built up spinoff franchise, Thunder Wrestling Federation for the out-of-work talent from the fallen TCW. Rayner quickly came aboard the TWF bandwagon. By the end of his career in the TWF's first outting, Rayner had managed to capture 3 Hard-Core Championships, along with being the longest running Hard-Core Champion in ANY of the TWF's 3 outtings. Rayner also managed to score his first ever World Heavyweight Championship before the death of the TWF.

Garry Ankrom and Dan Jackson put their heads together, and reaching their sufficient amount of funds, once again gave birth to TCW and TWF... in the form of TCWF... promising the superstars more than in their first outtings. About 3 months later, due to little action and once again, low funds, the TCWF died.

Dan Jackson was there once again to pick up the pieces as he gave birth to the TWF once more. In the course of 4 months, Rayner had won 2 Hard-Core Championships and 1 Lightweight Championship. The TWF died 4 months in, for the 2nd time, leaving alot of wrestlers out in the cold.

Rayner was then called up by his father, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT... who had managed to score him in with the big men at Global Internet Wrestling Federation. Rayner didn't stay with the GIWF for but about 2 1/2 months, where he was then called by Jerr Hose... owner of the Hardcore Championship Wrestling Federation.

During Rayner's extreme career with the HCWF, he managed to hold the Hard-Core Championship once for 3 weeks. About a month before the final HCWF pay-per-view, Rayner managed to capture both the HCWF Hard-Core Championship and the World Heavyweight Championship. At the final pay-per-view, Rayner would have to face long time friend DRAVEN LOX in a Hard-Core/Heavyweight Title Unification Match. The end result, Draven scored a victory over Rayner, winning both titles, thus, the end of the HCWF.

Dan Jackson once again resurrected the TWF in it's final outting. During the reign of Jackson, Rayner won 1 Hard-Core Championship, as well as 1 Tag Team Championship reign for about 2 months with his father, CORPORAL PUNISHMENT by his side. Dan Jackson became mentally ill, leaving the company without a leader. Rayner forfeited his Tag Team gold to take position as the president of the Thunder Wrestling Federation. Little to Rayner's knowledge, Dan Jackson and Garry Ankrom had concocted a plan to take him out of the wrestling business for good. Their attempt worked, or so they thought... as they brought down the TWF with them... and Rayner nowhere to be found.

During the course of Rayner's third TWF outting, he and SMOKESCREEN jumped ship to the UWF where they managed to win the UWF Tag Team Championship belts, and then defected back to the TWF where they would unify the belts.

Rayner quickly jumped back on the GIWF roster alongside his father and STUDOG ESCOBAR. Rayner was with the Law and Order faction for the entire month that he was in the GIWF... until he took his abrupt leave from the organization...

From the course of the beginning of March 2001, up until last night, January 22nd, 2004.... No one had heard from Rayner Donovan Statham... Until he made his presence felt at FREEDOM's live special Thursday night event, "EXILE"